Example sentences of "what it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In statistical terms by far the best predictor of what an authority will spend this year is what it spent last year ( Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries . |
| 3 | This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah |
| 4 | But what it signified neither man knew . |
| 5 | It denied denying what it called groundless accusations about embassy involvement in the attack . |
| 6 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 7 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |
| 8 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 9 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |